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Our company’s marketing folks have asked us to put together a compilation CD featuring material from the past 12 months. This CD will be used to give to public-radio programming directors who are not familiar with the program, as well as to potential funders, and for other marketing uses.

Rather than some edited compilation, we’re thinking of putting together the first half of three separate programs on the CD (each half being about 25 minutes). That way, we can showcase the depth, intimacy and storytelling we aim for. The other criteria? The shows must have been produced in the past year.

Choices, choices… It would be wonderful to highlight our Peabody Award-winning Rumi show. I’m also fond, myself, of the Mathematics show, the Architecture show, and the Jean Vanier show (yes, Jean Vanier is his own subject). Oh, and Heschel.

Three programs, 12 months, one CD — what are your three picks? (Our 2007 and 2008 archives, for reference.)

1. No More taking sides2. L'arche community of brokenness and beauty3. Listening generously, the Rachel Naomi Remen show

Of course I'm partial to medicine as a physician myself. The Mehmet Oz episode and Quarks and Creation, understanding Charles Darwin, the Mathematics episode and the V.V. Raman physics episode all really spoke to me.

No More Taking Sides was on last year's CD, so this and the previous suggestion for it from TheQuotient mean you guys have a nose for public-radio marketing! That show was what I'd call a "five-hankie" show ;)

If I was forced to choose only three programs from 2007 and 2008, I would have to select in no particular order:- The Spiritual Audacity of Abraham Joshua Heschel- Quarks and Creation- The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi

But I can not resist, my fourth selection would be: The Children of Abraham.

Deadline? Want to attach the audio clips that "broke my heart" from: Remen, Quarks+Creation, Presence in Wild. Perhaps the most shocking/beautiful was explaination of Vodou vs. perceptions prior to listening....When you have Father Bob Barron (word on fire.org), you'll want what he has to say, also.

All these votes for Rumi, Heschel & Vanier...looks like the "wise men" are leading the way! I still haven't decided, though I've narrowed down my list to four picks, some of which have been mentioned here...hmm...I wonder what the other two are. I hope to find some time in the next week to make that CD. Keep 'em coming.

It's not clear what counts as "produced" in the last year since a lot of 2008 has been re-broadcasts of earlier shows. Assuming that anything broadcast in 2008 counts:1)Brother Thay a Radio Pilgrimage with Thich Nhat Hanh2)Inner Landscape of Beauty (John O'Donohue)3)Planting the Future (Wangari Matthai)

Yeah...I guess I should have said "new" shows, which is what I meant. D'oh. On the other hand, it's been interesting to see what people gravitate to. As new people come to the show, more people are hearing old shows for the first time. So I figured I might as well open up the floor and see what people mention, new or old, of the past year.

John O'Donohue and Rumi were the new shows on your list, Ulysses. Some other new shows people have mentioned are Jean Vanier, Kate Braestrup (Presence in the Wild), Heschel, Ojibwe and Vodou.